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SMTP service

All deployed services include a basic smtpSMTP service preconfigured. It'sThis alsois useduseful tofor sendsending alerts and notifications about your service.

It'sThis is free, but it comes with few limitations:

  • You can send only transactional emails, noNo marketing emails are permitted. You can only send transactional emails. Any violation of this will lead to a suspension or termination of your service.
  • You can send up to 300 transactional emails per hour,hour. thatsThat's up to 7200 emails per day.day!
  • All emails must be sent from [domain]@vm.elestio.app where [domain] is the urlURL of your service. TryingAttempts toat sendsending from any other email address will be rejected.
  • The smtpSMTP service is available only from the global private network ipIP of your VM.

Of course in several cases you will want to change the smtp configuration in the web UI of your software to use another smtp service. It's useful if you want to be able to configure another sender address or to overcome any limitations stated above.

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